An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1977.
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'North Street', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford, (London, 1977) pp. 112. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/stamford/p112 [accessed 25 April 2024]
North Street (Fig. 70)
A continuous road runs from St. Peter's Street to St. Paul's Street, for the greater part immediately outside the town walls. In 1868 it was split into West Street, North Street, and East Street. Elm Street is a southerly branch of the same road, closely following the actual line of the wall. During the early 19th century almost the whole length of this road was built up with small houses and cottages, all of which encroached on the manorial waste. The dwellings were generally mean and included brothels in North Street to which the railway navvies resorted in the 1840s (Mercury, 1 Jan. 1847). Almost all of the early 19th-century houses were demolished before 1970.
(274) House, No. 2, class 15, three storeys, ashlar front wall, has a three-bay symmetrical front with sash windows under cambered heads; c. 1820 and now derelict. The first-floor room has a plaster floor.
(275) Row of four houses, two storeys and attics, rubble walls, mansard roof, each with class 14a plan, was described as newly built in 1812 (Mercury, 16 July). They are probably later than Stukeley House (97), completed 1801, in whose grounds they stand. The ground floor has been gutted and the entrances altered. Back-toback fireplaces in each house have segmental heads.